Questioning for Teaching & Learning is available to pre-order now, published in November! www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Guide...

Fascinating reflection on using principles over policies by @katejonesteach.bsky.social. I love the flex of this approach! #edusky

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Chunking in the classroom "Chunking has been shown to be useful for both retention of information and the transfer of information. This technique can be used with learners of all ages and across different subjects and topics." Blog by Kate Jones Read it here 👉 buff.ly/kjPlINN #EduBlogShare

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Maximising Opportunities to Learn in the Post -16 classroom Blog by @KateJones_teach Read it here: buff.ly/0X0fdDT #EduBlogShare #EduSky

Retrieval Practice and Technology: Five Key Principles "Technology has the potential to harness the benefits of retrieval practice through providing regular and low stakes opportunities for retrieval practice, inside and outside of the classroom." Blog by Kate Jones Read it here: buff.ly/CdQkV4r

Encourage students to ask for, and accept, help. In this blog, Kate Jones discusses the importance of encouraging students to seek assistance when needed, and how it can lead to greater success in their academic journey. #EduBlogShare #EduSky

Chunking in the classroom "Chunking has been shown to be useful for both retention of information and the transfer of information. This technique can be used with learners of all ages and across different subjects and topics." Blog by Kate Jones Read it here 👉 buff.ly/6o85Y4l #EduBlogShare

We have some great news to share with you! Professor Robert Coe is appointed to the expert panel of the new independent inquiry into white working-class educational outcomes. Read more here and why it matters. evidencebased.education/professor-ro...

The Model for Great Teaching offers a curriculum for teachers’ professional learning. It provides a common professional language and a shared structure for enabling Great Teaching. Which Element are you currently focusing on first? Let us know in the comments below! 👇 #EduSky #UKEd

@ianeagletonauthor.bsky.social and. @harrywoodgate.bsky.social look what I found in The English Bookshop in #Amsterdam 🌈 🤩

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Tutor time is really important but it can be difficult to ensure the time is not wasted, so this book by Nathan Burns hits the nail on the tutor time head! 👏 Brilliant!

Coming up tonight on Teachers Talk Radio - Daisy Christodoulou talks to Tom Rogers about assessment, AI and teaching history. Tune in live from 8pm tonight here: x.com/i/spaces/1ynKOlOmeQXGR

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Correct or Consolidate - a simple but powerful technique combining whole class feedback & self assessment. I observed this in action in a brilliant Year 1 lesson at Story Wood School in Birmingham. It would work well for other types of quizzing too, with factual knowledge, vocabulary or MFL.

Inspired by Arthur Melton, I added attendance to the model because it's essential students understand the link between attendance & learning. I added 'regular' to retrieval because it shouldn't be a one off. Finally, once students can retrieve knowledge & vocabulary they need to apply & transfer it.

About high-aptitude learners and curriculum design. gianfrancoconti.com/2025/06/09/1...

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Revision Clock (by Becky Russell). My students found it to be a helpful template. The resources provides opportunities for chunking, encoding and retrieval, spacing, can help time management, organisation & enable self assessment. You can download the template for free www.tes.com/teaching-res...

I really enjoyed chatting with Dr Chris Baker, as a guest on his Leadership Launchpads podcast. If you haven't subscribed & listened I highly recommend it because all of the episodes are interesting, fun & provide food for thought! You can find out more here drchriswb.substack.com?r=wucjb&utm_...

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Retrieval Practice & technology: Five Key Principles to consider evidencebased.education/retrieval-pr...

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So pleased to be able to share this episode about how RE a-level has prepared young people for life and their careers - teaching critical thinking and decision making. Please share widely! #TeamRE @karensteele.bsky.social

There are lots of ways to provide opportunities for retrieval practice. There are benefits/limitations to different techniques that's why I embrace variety. As a history teacher, quizzes are great for knowledge recall but students must be given opportunities for elaboration & application too.

I am very excited to be presenting at The International School of Monaco, at this brilliant event. The key themes are to innovate, share & empower! I will be sharing a wide range of evidence inspired & workload friendly feedback techniques to support all learners.

The same visuals can be used in the encoding & retrieval stages of the learning process. This is known as the 'Encoding Specificity Principle' (Tulving & Thompson 1973!), a retrieval cue can provide a prompt to support initial retrieval success, especially if students have seen the cue before! 👏

"The more you revisit, the more you reveal." I love the posts published by Sarah Findlater. Insightful, interesting & informative. If you haven't subscribed to her substack yet I highly recommend it! sarahfindlater.substack.com/p/why-ai-in-...

Cognitive offloading can help scaffold students learning by overcoming some of the limits of working memory.

Cognitive offloading is something we all do in our daily lives, how (and why) can we apply this in the classroom? evidencebased.education/cognitive-of...

It's wonderful to be at the National Writers Conference, at Birmingham University today. #NWC25

Voici quelques stratégies simples qui permettent aux apprenants de se décharger cognitivement et ainsi de réduire la charge et la pression sur leur #mémoire de travail limitée. @katejonesteach.bsky.social @evidencebased.education #EduSky

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Thanks for this great blog post Kate! bsky.app/profile/caro...

Nice to see that some of my ideas about retrieval practice/ quizzing are not drawn from the ether or out on a limb, but similar to other research in this area. As we approach GCSEs I can see a huge impact from our QR code quizzing. Blogged about here onebighistorydepartment.com/2025/03/05/u...

Comment les #enseignants peuvent-ils susciter la #curiosité en #classe ? Voici quelques idées pratiques pour stimuler la curiosité en classe. @katejonesteach.bsky.social @evidencebasededu.bsky.social #mémoire #apprentissage #EduSky

Really pertinent stuff in this piece by @katejonesteach.bsky.social Addressing the knowing-doing gap amongst staff takes time, as does unpicking reasons why some are reluctant to engage with evidence-informed strategies. Hence the need for a long term CPD curriculum which responds to these factors.

A useful reminder from @evidencebasededu.bsky.social of 5 key principles for the design and use of retrieval practice in your classroom by @katejonesteach.bsky.social. Well worth reading: evidencebased.education/retrieval-pr... #retrieval #classroom #teaching #edusky #curriculum